M25 crash in Epping Forest on 9 March 2010 at 07:45 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the M25 in Epping Forest at 07:45 on Tuesday 9 March 2010. The 28-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2010
- Tuesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.6895, longitude 0.09287, in the CM16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Theydon Bois with Passingford, Epping Forest, CM16 4EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201042I100703
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2021.
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 16 March 2021
19 m awayRef 2021421028551
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 19 January 2018
23 m awayRef 2018420260063
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 4 July 2025
26 m awayRef 2025421611750
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 29 March 2010
28 m awayRef 201042I092803
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 4 April 2004
45 m awayRef 20044200G0271
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Epping Forest, 25 October 2014
47 m awayRef 201442I369710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201042I100703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2010.